Westermann's, corner of Broadway and Reade street, by whose house in Brunswick, Germany, it is published. * * * * * M. ALEXANDER DUVAL has a long article in the _Journal des Débats_ entitled, _Studies upon German Love_, taking his text from Bettina von Arnim's famous correspondence with Goethe, and from the _Book of Love_, in which the same sentimentalist has recorded her relations with the unfortunate Günderode. M. Duval finds that in his intercourse with Bettina, Goethe played a part which was honorable neither to his mind nor his heart. In the _Book of Love_, says M. Duval, there is a little of every thing--of physics, of metaphysics, of poetry, of natural history, of biographical anecdotes, the history of the first kiss, of the second kiss, and of the third kiss received by Mlle. Bettina, mixed up with apostrophes to the stars, to the ocean, to the mountains, and above all, to the moon, which she loves so much that she never leaves it in peace. In fact, she has such a passion for whatever is lunatic, that the moon above is not sufficient, and she invents another, an interior and metaphysical moon, which enlightens the world of our thoughts. About this she writes to Goethe: "When thou art about to go to sleep, confide thyself to the inward moon, sleep in the light of the moon of thy own nature." French literature was never disgraced by a girl's making a god of its most illustrious representative, and his allowing the silly incense to be burned for years upon his altars; but the evil is getting into France as well. Rousseau did not dare to publish his confessions, but Lamartine has had the courage, and has served up to the public his own letters and the portraits of his mistresses. Madame Sand's _Memoirs_ are also advertised; another step that way and Germany need no longer envy the country of Montesquieu and Voltaire, of good sense and action. * * * * * Readable and instructive is HASE'S _Neue Propheten_ (New Prophets), just published in Germany. The new prophets are Joan d'Arc, Savonarola, and the Anabaptists of Münster. They are treated historically and philosophically, in a style whose simplicity, animation, and clearness, differ most gratefully from the crabbed and long-winded sentences of the earlier German writers, in the study of whom we dug our way into some imperfect acquaintance with that rich and flexible tongue. The book is worthy of translation. * * * * * A new book on a subject which has latterly become prominent among the themes of European observation and thought is called _Südslavische Wanderwagen im Sommer 1850_ (Wandering in Southern Slavonia in the Summer of 1850). It is a series of vivid and interesting pictures of one of the most remarkable races and regions of Europe. * * * * *